How I made a sweet snowboard jump in my back yard...All I needed was some snow, a slope, a shovel, my snowboard and some time.. Thanks to Foo Fighters for ...

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German Wins First Women’s Ski Jump

and everyone can see women can do really good ski jump,” Iraschko-Stolz said. For years, the I.O.C. found reasons to keep women ski jumpers out of the Olympics even though more than two decades ago, the organization said that all future events must …

Gay at the Games: Historic Silver Medal; Americans Not Pleased With Luge Ad

Making History Gay ski jumper Daniela Iraschko-Stolz is taking a silver ... and everyone can see women can do really good ski jump,” Iraschko-Stolz told the The New York Times. Women ski jumpers sued for the right to compete at the Vancouver games ...

Eddie "The Eagle" Edwards has been busy in Austria helping former TOWIE ... The Jump. What's the secret of a good ski jump? Once your knees stop knocking, Eddie has some top tips... Prepare for take-off Everything happens at take-off, so you have to ...

Little more than a good ski jump away in the heart of Innsbruck's old town, knights once risked their lives jousting in front of a golden roof built for the Emperor Maximilian I. The golden roof of almost 3000 gold-plated copper tiles sits over a balcony ...

It's jumping. On skis. Ski jumping. Actually, ski jumping is one of two events at the Olympics where people put on skis and jump. The other is freestyle skiing, which includes halfpipes and ramps built for doing tricks. Ski jumping is the one where you ...

KRASNAYA POLYANA, Russia (AP) — Nordic combined athlete Evgeniy Klimov won't do double-duty for Russia after all at the Sochi Olympics. Klimov had been drafted into the five-man Russian ski jumping team for the large hill team event Monday due to …

Ski jumping at the Steinach Skiflyer centre in Thuringia: So this is what it feels like to join the lords of the flyers

A few of my friends were jealous. Some were supportive. Most were sceptical. All were amused. “It will be fine,” they reassured me. “If you’ve been skiing before, then it shouldn’t be a problem.” “I’ve never been skiing,” I replied ...

Winter. Time to reach for the duvet - unless you're a snowsport enthusiast, in which case the white stuff can't come thick and fast enough. Heavy snow has blanketed parts of the North and South Islands this week, as skifield operators rub their gloved ...

Casper Mountain Racer’s volunteer coach plus board member and University of Wyoming Athletic Hall of Famer started his skiing life before Hogadon existed. It actually began in 1935, 12 years before Bob Kidd was even born. His father, David Kidd served …